City Lord's Mansion.
Yu Jin watched Yin Yao's fading silhouette.
He lowered his head and glanced at the 'Attribute Activation Stone' in his hand.
This senior, her eyes still red with tears, still refused his small token of 'thanks'.
She said—
No reward without merit.
"Really no merit?"
Yu Jin sat in the city lord's seat, murmuring to himself.
Yin Yao's rebirth meant much, for him, and for Blue Star.
If not for Yin Yao's continual 'soft meals', he'd probably never have broken through to Tier Nine before crossing over.
If he didn't break into Tier Nine, he couldn't purify Oumuamua's 89% pollution. Blue Star might've been thoroughly polluted, even destroyed—no matter how invincible Yu Jin became in the Wasteland, it wouldn't change this fact.
If he didn't break into Tier Nine, the system might not update, leaving him unable to exceed the Tier Nine limit, unable to keep leveling up.
After all, the root of the update was—
